A disturbing lawsuit filed accuses administrators at Shiloh Treatment Center, some ways south of Houston, of subduing immigrant children with psychiatric drugs. The allegations are especially disconcerting in light of President Donald Trump’s recent comments on illegal immigration and the rights of detained children. While the commander-in-chief signed an executive order Wednesday designed to reduce
This month, the Ponca Nation and a Nebraskan farming family made history at the intersection of the Trail of Tears and the path of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Transgender Employee Settles Discrimination Lawsuit with Wal-Mart
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Survivors of the Pulse Nightclub killings in 2016 plan to pursue a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Orlando and the Orlando Police Department. The suit, reports WMFE, accuses law enforcement of violating the civil rights of survivors by not responding to reports of shots fired as quickly as they could have. A complaint
A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the legality of separating migrant families caught trying to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw determined Wednesday that the suit, involving a 7-year old girl separated from her Congolese mother and a 14-year old boy from Brazil, could proceed on grounds of
In May, unemployment shrank to a mere 3.8%, but that doesn’t mean affording kids is getting any easier.
Some four and a half years ago, Florida sheriff’s deputies showed up to the home of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. The African-American father of three was a man with an imperfect past. He had several traffic violations on his record—serious violations, according to The New York Times—and had been drinking long before law enforcement arrived.
A former inmate at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center says she was repeatedly raped by a guard and then victimized by an on-site counselor. Karen Backues Keil, writes the New York Post¸ was released from the Midwestern jail in February 2017. She’d served six years for forgery and theft. But the hardships of hard time didn’t
Convicted cop-killer Demetrius Blackwell is suing New York City after being jumped by two other inmates in a borough jail. Blackwell, found guilty in the 2015 slaying of NYPD Officer Brian Moore, claims officials at the Brooklyn Detention Center failed to protect him from other prisoners. Citing an altercation last spring, the killer claims to